The lessons of history arrive in the form of personal experiences,
books, media presentations, paintings, architecture and so on.

How these materials are interpreted and perhaps, through the
ages, re-interpreted assuming the information is included, varies according
to the group or the individual perspective, interests, socio-economic influences
and opportunities.

As we pass through the formal educational process, we are
informed of histories; others and ours.

It generally requires an enlightened mentor or parent to point
out what is overlooked in the presentation of history, so earnestly injected
into our academic and formative education.

Many years ago, as this awareness of history's exceptions
were realized, my parents, John Willis Griffith, Edith Paulina Griffith, and
my mentor, Oscar Brown Jr., pointed out the necessity for assuming responsibility
and making sacrifices necessary to enlighten shadows and fill empty historical
spaces.

So, the development of information, awareness, heightened
sensibility and maturation leads to inevitable conclusions.

Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre from inception in 1980, remains
an initiative and institution for the documentation and preservation of the
existence and contributions of individuals and groups, to the societies in
which they and we reside.

We are participants in the process of embedding in memories
and stone, what previously might have been, "Footprints in the Sand?".